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Four Potting Mixes That Cover Almost Every Houseplant
Bagged compost is designed for garden beds and outdoor containers, not for a pot indoors. Four ingredients and four ratios will serve everything on your shelf better.
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Most plant problems start below the surface
Soil & Potting
Mixing your own potting media, understanding perlite and vermiculite, choosing pots that drain, and letting go of the drainage-layer myth.
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Perlite vs Vermiculite: They Do Opposite Things
Both are white-ish mineral granules sold on the same shelf for the same price, and people treat them as interchangeable. One adds drainage; the other adds water retention.
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The Gravel Layer Myth: Why It Makes Drainage Worse
Putting stones in the bottom of a pot is the most widely repeated piece of plant advice there is. It has been known to be counterproductive since the 1950s, and the physics is not complicated.
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